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The Burnout Road

There are many companies that create a ‘road to burnout’ and there are some signs that point towards that:

  1. Criticising your colleagues, clients, managers for their decisions or actions.
  2. Having an impression of decreased work quality.
  3. Only doing the work that is asked.

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Company Values

We as individuals have certain values, and if the company we work does not respect them, it feels like abuse. Our values have to be aligned with the company's values for us to feel motivated to work.

Example: If you are an animal lover but the company you work for is d...

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Clear Indicators Of Burnout

  1. There is no sense of accomplishment, and work has lost its purpose.
  2. Lack of energy and decreasing will to go to work on a daily basis.
  3. Having dizziness, exhaustion, stomach cramp, headaches, sleeplessness and shortness of breath.

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Preventing Burnout

  • Do not isolate yourself: speak your concerns to your manager.
  • It’s a bug: As a software developer, see that the problem you have is a bug that needs to be eradicated.
  • Know your path: Meditate to find clarity and understand...

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Unfair Perceptions

Knowledge workers, especially in software development suffer from an inherent absence of fairness, where the usual ‘tangible’ indicators of work like staying late at work doing overtime are rewarded by the managers.

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Get Clear About Your Needs

You can get clarity on your needs and requirements by asking yourself the following:

  1. What is it that you want to accomplish in life?
  2. What is the amount of money you require to be happy, without compromising on your mental health?
  3. What is your d...

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Hobbies To Prevent Burnout

Do something different and playful, like drawing or writing. Having a hobby provides us with a creative outlet and gives us a sense of accomplishment. It is good to just enjoy the process and not to make it another goal with deadlines and pressure.

If things are serious, you can see a spec...

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Causes Of Burnout

  1. Overwork or overcommitment is a clear cause of burnout, at least in the case of software development, as it is an isolated working profile.
  2. Lack of trust from the manager, combined with a lack of authority or autonomy towards your ...

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Psychological Safety

  • A company with a generative culture ensures the psychological safety of an employee. The focus is good results, with shared risks, and all failures being accepted as a default. In such a company, one is not afraid to commit mistakes, experiment or express ...

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Workplace Hell

It gets frustrating to become involved in our work, but to have a work environment that is not conducive to our deeper involvement.

If a workplace rookie (or even a manager) finds the working environment to be authoritative, opaque, chaotic or uncaring towards the employee, there is bound ...

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Burnout

Burnout

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Burnout is a syndrome resulting from chronic workplace stress that one has failed to manage.

We may think that burnout, due to work or even otherwise, is something that only happens to othe...

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The Interactions With Coworkers

Our interactions with our co-workers affect us in various ways. There can be unresolved conflicts, abuse of power, bullying, harassment, and smear campaigns that we may have to endure.

The managers should check this in the one-on-one sessions and ensure that the employee d...

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Creative Burnout

There are many symptoms to this cause but we must understand first what creative burnout is. It is the state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion around creative working.

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The Burnout Spectrum

  • Many of us are heading towards burnout, but aren’t there yet. If we are overextended, disengaged and ineffective in our job roles, we are on the verge of burnout.
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Self-Sabotage Traps

Some people appear immune to workplace burnout, due to their having a different response towards stress. Many of these burnout ‘survivors’ are actually getting into various self-sabotage traps. These traps can be handled by two important emotional intelligence skills:

  1. Self-awaren...

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